Letting Go

Letting go does not mean to stop caring,
     it means I can't do it for someone else.

Letting go is not to cut myself off,
     it's the realization I can't control another.

Letting go is not to enable;
     but to allow learning from natural consequences.

Letting go is to admit powerlessness;
     which means the outcome is not in my hands.

Letting go is not to try to change or blame another;
     it's to make the most of myself.

Letting go is not to care for;
     but to care about.

Letting go is not to fix;
     but to be supportive.

Letting go is not to judge;
     but to allow another to be a human being.

Letting go is not to be in the middle arranging the outcome;
     but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

Letting go is not to be protective;
     it's to permit another to face reality.

Letting go is not to deny;
     but to accept.

Letting go is not to nag, scold, or argue;
     but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

Letting go is not to adjust everything to my own desires;
     but to take each day as it comes and cherish me in it.

Letting go is not to criticize and regulate anybody;
     but to try to become what I dream I can be.

Letting go is not to regret the past;
     but to grow and live for the future.

Letting go is to fear less and live more.